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Even if a metaphysical world existed, knowledge of it would matter least of all knowledge
Drawn from what Friedrich Nietzsche said
What Friedrich Nietzsche actually said
- Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 to 1900)
Even were the existence of such a world absolutely established, it would nevertheless remain incontrovertible that of all kinds of knowledge, knowledge of such a world would be of least consequence—of even less consequence than knowledge of the chemical analysis of water would be to a storm tossed mariner.
Where this was said
↗Human, All Too Human (1878; Alexander Harvey translation, 1908)gutenberg.org
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